The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is requesting information from Facebook as it examines whether the social media company properly warned investors of developers obtaining user data without consent, The Wall Street Journal reports. The SEC seeks the data from Facebook as it attempts to determine how much the tech company knew about Cambridge Analytica’s data practices, while also figuring out if Facebook weighed the risk of developers sharing the information with other parties in violation of its policies. Meanwhile, Facebook closed a vulnerability on its platform allowing third parties to see the names of members in private groups after a complaint was made by users of a breast cancer awareness page. (Registration may be required to access this story.) 
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